1. Project Title

    "Mudcrab Culture" is enough. " Mudcrab Culture in mangrove forest with fish fattening" is too much and inappropriate.
   

2. Background/Rationale

   Include the significance of the project; where it will be put up; who will benefit from it. Write in some information about the community of the proponent and the project site.
   

3. Proponent Profile

   Describe your proponent. Demography. Capacity to manage the project.
   

4. Objectives

   What are the proponent's general and specific objectives?
   

5. Project Profile

   Describe the nature of the project, specific location, form of products to be derived from it, materials needed for its establishment, and the like.
   
6. Project Cost
   The whole budgetary requirements for the project. Not necessarily in narrative form but in a budget/cost matrix.

7. Project Implementation Strategy

   Describe how the proponent will operationalize the project . What are its designed activities? Who are responsible for what activity?
   

8. Economic and Environmental Impact

   What contributions will the project have towards socio-economic development in the proponent's life and that of its immediate community? How does the project relate to the general environmental conservation efforts? Point out the solid waste management scheme. Cite incremental benefits.
   

9. Expected Output

   What are the expected results during and after project implementation? Connect these to the stated objectives.

10. Sustainability Measures

    Define the proponent's planned activities to sustain the project, like expansion/replication strategies and product development.

That's basically it! Try writing your own project proposal now. Writing it alone can make money. Look for organizations/ groups that commission others to write their proposal.

Happy writing!

1. Make it Simple To Read- Avoid using light colored texts like yellow on a white background and dark blue on black background. You want your visitors to easily read and assimilate your text without any pains.
2. Adequate Text size- Never use text that is too large or too small. For headlines and subheadings, use larger texts. If your target audience is people of older age bracket, avoid using small fonts as the possibility of poorer eyesight increases with age.
3. Decent Spacing- Never overlook spaces when editing your page. Those key benefits your product or service is offering should be on indents and bullets. Consistency is of essence throughout the entire context of your website.
4. Simple Grammar- Make the text on your web page readable by checking spelling and grammar errors. However, you can break some laws if it suites your desire to bring your points home.
5. Make it Moody- You can catalyze the emotion on your reader by applying significant colors on your text. Green creates greed on the mind of your reader. To make your reader excited, use some red text, while blue makes reading more enjoyable. These colors will put anyone in the mood to buy your product.
6. Painful Eyes- Bright text colors and backgrounds on your web site makes text hard to read and bother your reader's eyes that they just speed off from your site.
7. Attract Interest- You can grasp the interest of your reader by using sharp headlines. Make it bolder by using different colored headlines than the ad content. Once a reader notices the headline, their attention makes them read the rest of the ad.
8. Highlight Keywords- Create emphases on phrases and keywords that are relevant to your reader. To achieve this, apply any of these formatting techniques on the chosen words -bold, underline, italics, color, word art etc.
9. Avoid ALL CAPS- All caps text is very difficult to read while looking unprofessional. To offset it, use all caps in your banners and headlines.
10. Adequate Fonts- This is important as people mistakenly use comic style fonts to advertise business books. Use appropriately simple texts, do not over-impress!

George didn't come to Chicago to exchange body fluids ... well, maybe he did but not like this! (HOOK) He thought vampires were fantasies stuck in places like crypts, B-movies and corporate America, but when he is made into one the hunters turned out to be just as real too and they want him dead. (CONFLICT) Life might suck, yet undeath bites as George discovers in his search for a cure that doesn't involve stakes, sunlight or super powered ninja-nuns. (RESOLUTION)

SPURNED AND TURNED is an 80,000-word humorous novel. It is similar to Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends and takes place over a period of one week. I wrote this as a deliberate mockumentary towards all the recent vampire/supernatural romances that have flooded the market as of late.

I am member of the Chicago Writer's Guild of North America and an active journalist for the Chicago Sun Times. I am the recipient of the Chicago Star for creative writing and one of my short stories was awarded second place in the Humorous Tales Competition of Illinois in 2006.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,

NAME

But there are some very good book reviewers there. After reading a few, there is bound to be some that you like. The style of writing and tone of voice of the reviewer may be to your liking. See who inspires you and try to emulate them. Soon you will develop your own voice.

So, what are you waiting for - write that book review now!

Standardize

There are four generally recognized references styles in use today: MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Each is used within specific industries or companies and has specific strength and weaknesses and are supported by different tools in order to make managing, creating, and sorting references and papers easier.

• MLA (Modern Language Association)

  This style of references is traditionally used by schools, academic departments, and instructors and has been in use for nearly half a century. MLA includes guidelines on punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources.

• APA (American Psychological Association)

  APA style is predominantly used within the social sciences. APA format includes guidelines on general formating, in-text citation, endnotes/footnotes, and reference page styling.

• Chicago

  The Chicago style format is based of the book Chicago Manual of Style (1). This style provides an Author-Date style of ordering that is usually easier to follow within the natural and social sciences.

• Turabian

  The Turabian style is based of the format suggested by Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (2) which in itself was based closely on the Chicago style and serves many of the same functions.

Know Your Audience

Playing a classical performance at a battle of the bands makes little sense. In the same way using references when not needed or failing to use them in the correct style when they are needed can strongly detract from an articles performance. The modern equivalent of the citation is the webpage link. The webpage link has a strongly suggested style, a standardized easily computer read format, and provides further information that others can use. In fact many of the newer citation formats have citation suggestions specifically for websites.

Writing an article on pool table design which will be used solely on a website makes webpage links a good idea. Though providing a collected link section at the end of the article is always a strong suggestion. While this same format of linking is a bad idea when writing an article for a science teacher because the ease of use of websites becomes a difficult chore to confirm references when you have to manually type in website links to access information.

Bending to the Yoke

The bow yoke according to wikipedia is..

“... a shaped wooden crosspiece bound to the necks of a pair of oxen, or occasionally horses. It is held on the animals' necks by an oxbow, usually U-shaped, that also transmits force from the animals' shoulders, hence the name bow yoke.”

The phrase “bending to ones yoke” generally means to burden ones self with a constraint that generally leads to positive group effort. It can also mean to be put under the authority of another person or organization. Both definitions apply when it comes time to apply a paper to an organization. Before spending hours organizing, sorting, and formating your citations or references be sure that the citation or reference format you have chosen will be accepted where you wish to publish your paper. Some groups such as the APA only accept papers in a specific format and following specific guidelines for content and practices.

The reason for this is both to maintain consistency of look as well as content but also to ease the use of automated tools that can cross link reference and provide evidence of worth of papers. A paper that is heavily referenced is more likely to be of use to an author or researcher then a paper that is rarely referenced.

Tools and Systems

Having references for an article or research paper is nice but creating these references can be a tiring practice, especially considering some of these references can be incorrectly formated if even a single comma is out of place! This being the case there are manuals and programs designed to make referencing papers and articles easier then what was available in the past.

• Son of Citation Machine

  A web based citation generating website which works in each of the four major styles and has clear instructions detailing how to generate a reference citation. Following the on screen instructions step by step can generate correctly typed (though not always correctly formated for copy and past) text that can then be easily incorporated into any research paper or article. Each citation also includes how the citation should appear with proper formating within your paper making correcting the copy and pasted portion a simple process.

• MLA Formatting and Style Guide

  Each of these formats include more then simply a standardized method of presenting citations but also ways to organize, format, and even which fonts to use. While something can be said for originality, standardization also provides strong benefits. Each of these formats provides a time tested and proven method of presenting a paper that will be, in most cases, easily printed and read. This site gives a great break down on MLA both citation and formating.

• APA Formatting and Style Guide

  APA formating guide presented by the same group that produced the above MLA formating and style guide.

• Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide

  This page describes mostly the citation format of Chicago style.

• Turabian Citation Style

  List of examples of the more commonly used Turabian citation style. This guide does not provide a step by step guide but is reasonably clear in how to create each citation.

References:

1. University of Chicago Press Staff, (2003). The Chicago manual of style. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
2. Turabian, K., Booth, W., Colomb, G., & Williams, J. A Manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations, 7th Ed: Chicago style for students and researchers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Yoke. (2008). In Wikipedia [Web]. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. Retrieved January 2nd, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoke
4. Landmarks, Son of citation machine. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Sone of Citation Machine Web site: http://citationmachine.net/
5. Kunka, J. (2008, January 22nd). MLA formatting and style guide. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from MLA formatting and style guide Web site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
6. Neyhart, D. (2008, January 22nd). APA formatting and style guide. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from APA formatting and style guide Web site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
7. Roecker, F. (2006, March 3rd). Chicago manual of style citation guide. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide Web site: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php
8. (2005, May 8th). Turabian citation style. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Turabian citation style Web site: http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/CWP/library/workshop/cittur.htm

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